President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda has defied international pressure and followed in the footsteps of other countries in the region by changing the constitution – enabling the former rebel commander and leader of the ruling party holds onto power. Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni scrapped term limits in 2005 and recently, Burundi President Pierre…

Rwandans living in the diaspora took to the polls yesterday to vote on the proposed amendment to the constitution whilst voting for those residing in the country will be taking place today. The constitutional amendment, if it goes through, will allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third term. Currently the…

The lower house in Rwanda’s parliament voted on Thursday to enable President Paul Kagame to extend his rule over a second term in the country which is due to end in 2017. If he is voted in he will be able to govern until 2034. However, the draft amendments to…

In Rwanda, the world witnessed one of the greatest man-made disasters in our modern history. Approximately 800,000 Rwandans lost their lives in the 1994 genocide leaving the country and the international community in disarray. But twenty years after, the narrative of Rwanda has changed. From a war torn country, it…

The Rwandan government has decided to create a regulatory framework for drone due to investor interest in creating the world’s first drone airport in the country at the beginning of next year, reported The New Times. Over the past couple of years the use of remotely piloted aircraft systems, or…

Today Rwanda’s Supreme Court dismissed the application intended to prevent the president from extending his time in office beyond two terms. The case was brought to the court by the Democratic Green Part of Rwanda but was dismissed a groundless today. It has been reported that President Paul Kagame of…

RWANDA- A debate on whether Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame should get himself a third term in 2017 after his final term in office expires or not has grown in number and vehemence in the recent months. The country’s parliament has launched a process that could finally end the debate on…

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched a new round of security talks. Both countries have described the decision as “a new chapter” in their relations. In a joint statement with the Rwanda’s Defence minister James Kabarebe and his visiting Congolese counterpart Aimé Lusa-Diese Ngoi-Mukena they said…

Stephen Feller, the Police Adviser at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Missions celebrated the Rwandan peacekeepers who work in the Central African Republic (CAR) for their commitment to bring peace and stability to the country as well as their professionalism, reported The New Times. Feller congratulated the Rwandan peacekeepers during…

The United Kingdom and Rwanda signed a financing agreement yesterday worth £30.5m aimed at supporting basic education programmes. The grant will last for four-years and will be directed the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and is predicted to improve the Ministry of Education’s Learning-For-All programme, reported The New Times….

The United Kingdom has rejected the bid to extradite Rwanda’s spy chief to Spain for trial on his alleged involvement in the massacres after the 1994 genocide, The BBC reported yesterday. Karenzi Karake was out on bail in the UK after his arrest in June this year due to a…

Four Rwandan soldiers working as peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been shot dead and eight others wounded by a colleague who then shot himself. The soldiers were Rwandan Defence Force (RDF) troops partaking in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission. The incident occurred on August 8…

English is largely taking hold in Africa. While British colonizers were only a single player in Europe’s scramble for the continent in the 1880s, English is on its way to become one of the major, if not the major, languages spoken in the region. The vestiges of other European languages…

Yesterday, gunmen wearing military uniforms shot and killed a former Burundian security chief and close aid of Burundi’s President, Pierre Nkurunziza. The General, Adolphe Nshimirimana, who was in charge of Nkurunziza’s personal security was killed in a car along with three body guards. Four attackers in military clothing sprayed the…

They sat around four wobbly, wooden tables. Around them old books, their pages yellow with age, were scattered throughout the room, some piles stacked two feet high. Two of them glanced over students’ essays, one peered through his thin-framed glasses into a computer screen, and the other flipped through an…

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